Lafayette Boy Name

The table below indicates the number of times the name Lafayette has been given to baby boys in recent years.
The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004.
The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Lafayette

Use of the Name Lafayette for Boys During the Last ...

125 Years

50 Years

25 Years

10 Years

5 Years

2 Years

1 Year

2,472

177

0

0

0

0

0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Lafayette has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004.
Lafayette last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1967, the last year shown on the table.
A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Lafayette

Used as a Boy Name

Used as a Girl Name

Year

Rank

Count

Rank

Count

1880

368

22

1881

370

21

1882

409

20

1883

576

11

1884

342

27

1885

372

23

1886

326

27

1887

336

24

1888

435

19

1889

477

16

1890

583

12

1891

737

8

1892

473

18

1893

738

9

1894

451

19

1895

407

23

1896

575

14

1897

467

18

1898

558

15

1899

756

9

1900

611

17

1901

1902

630

13

1903

638

13

1904

668

13

1905

968

8

1906

828

10

1907

526

21

1908

647

17

1909

929

11

1910

803

15

1911

951

13

1912

729

35

1913

728

41

1914

809

43

1915

866

51

1916

869

53

1917

783

65

1918

708

80

1919

856

60

1920

814

68

1921

705

86

1922

814

69

1923

944

53

1924

879

62

1925

862

60

1926

986

49

1927

1928

1929

1930

1931

844

56

1932

954

47

1933

806

59

1934

724

72

1935

919

48

1936

761

64

1937

862

51

1938

945

45

1939

1940

954

45

1941

909

49

1942

1943

1944

1945

857

54

1946

924

52

1947

1948

921

56

1949

937

55

1950

970

51

1951

928

57

1952

1953

992

53

1954

1955

959

61

1956

1957

1958

1959

1960

1961

1962

1000

59

1963

1964

1965

1966

1967

960

57

Totals:

2,472

0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Lafayette as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name.
Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Lafayette appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 66 times during the last 125 years.